Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Campbell-Bannerman

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Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was a British statesman and Liberal politician. He served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908. He also served as Secretary of State for War twice, in the Cabinets of Gladstone and Rosebery. He was the first First Lord of the Treasury to be officially called the "Prime Minister", the term only coming into official usage five days after he took office. He remains the only person to date to hold the positions of Prime Minister and Father of the House at the same time, and the last Liberal leader to gain a UK parliamentary majority.

British - Politician | September 7, 1836 - April 22, 1908

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Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, and political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

We are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of Labour. We have too few of them in the House of Commons. The Liberal party, high and low, have discovered, if they ever forgot it, that the real road to success lies in adhering to the old principles of the party.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Campbell-Bannerman

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